The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-01
Farm Notes.

THE abolition of the seed swindle at
Washington is demanded by Orchard
and Garden as "never without its de-
moralizing influences"
FARMERS owe to themselves and to
the fraternity to which they belong,
special duty, viz, that of being COM
municative. They should not hide
their light under bushel.
THE following is from an exchange:
" Your paper is spoiled to more than
one of my acquaintance by your adj
vocating that uncalled-for and most
intensely painful imposition, the de-
horning of cattle. The hand that will
use tools for removing natural horns
filled with tender ligaments and nerves
should be paralyzed."
THE trouble with the spring incubator
chicken lies not in its Matching, but in
its bringing up. A kerosene mother
cannot go about the yard and scratch
up the toothsOme worm, nor smuggle
into the chicks stomach digestive
gravel. In this preliminary educa-
tional period the outstretched wings of
an old hen afford more protection than a
world of smoke from a kerosene lamp
Erening Sun.
THE only people here who succeed
in accommodating riches are land agent
sharks and mortgage bankers. 1t is,
in my opinion, as much crime to
swindle people by inducing them by
Misrepresentation to emigrate to new
country as to knock them down and
take their money. l advise those in
the older states who have farms or
business making them living to -" let
well enough alone. "-B., Little Blue
Valley, Neb.
PUT in a little more corn than you were
calculating to. 1t is valuable fodder
aside from the grain, and with that
doubly valuable. If you have piece
of ground where the grass will not
turn over the sward (and plow it WELD
harrow thoroughly, and with two hun
dred fifty or three hundred pounds of
phosphate to the acre you will ordi-
narily raise good corn. And it is not
yet too late to plant it.
If meal contains the flour mites al
luded to it may as well be fed to hogs
or other animals, for such meal is quite
disagreeable from the strong odor of
the mites when handled. We have &C.
casionally bought bran for cattle that
was badly infested with these mites.
If they get into grain-room or into
the fiour-barrel there should be thor
ough cleansing of the room and all
utensils kept therein. Grain-rooms
need frequent attention to see that they
do not become a harbor for numerous
species of insects that infest ground or
unground grain.-A. W. CheeUer.
IN regard to cutting potatoes a very
large number of experiments have
proved that whole potatoes are best for
warm, high land, and for very early
potatoes they will not only yield enough
more to pay the extra cost of the seed
but will produce a crop from week to
ten days earlier than cut potatoes,
which will sometimes make difference
in price of from fifty cents to dollar a
bushel. But on rich, moist land the
difference between whole and cut
potatoes is not 80 great. In the first
place, on a rich, moist soil it is not so
| important to secure an early vigorous
growth as it is on a warm, dry soil, and
in the second place, not being planted
so deep below the surrounding land,
there is greater tendency to the pro-
duction of larger number of stalks
than on dry land; but as rule, even
on low land, it would be better to
plant medium-sized potato WHOLE
! Mirror and Farmer.